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The Tufts University Economics Department sponsors research seminars, lectures, and events throughout the year.

Energy and Climate Forum

Launched in Fall 2006, the Energy and Climate Forum was conceived as a means of gauging interest in the topics of climate and energy, an area identified as being particularly promising for development as a cross-university effort. Sponsored by the Department of Economics, the Tufts Institute of the Environment (TIE), and the Fletcher School's Center for International Environment and Resource Policy (CIERP), it will consist of monthly seminars featuring both internal and external speakers addressing critical issues surrounding energy and climate. Topics may include science, engineering, economics, health and the environment, and resources policy and politics.

Date Speaker Title
October 9, 2007
5:30 - 7:00 pm.
Mugar 200 (The Schmidheiny Room)
Cutler Cleveland
Professor of Geography and Environment, Boston University
"Energy Transitions Past and Future"
November 13, 2007
5:30 - 7:00 pm
Cabot 206
Mead Treadwell
Chair of the US Arctic Research Commission
"The Changing Arctic Map"
December 7, 2007
4:30 - 6:00 p.m.
Cabot 702
Reception to Follow
Andris Piebalgs
Commisioner for Energy, Commission of the European Union
"The European Energy Policy—Challenges and Responses"
February 6, 2008
5:30 - 7:00 p.m.
Cabot 703
Gilbert E. Metcalf
Professor of Economics
Tufts University
"A Proposal for a U.S. Carbon Tax Swap: An Equitable Tax Reform to Address Global Climate Change"
March 5, 2008
5:30 - 7:00 p.m.
Mugar 200, Fletcher
Frank Ackerman
Director of the Research and Policy Program at the Global Development and Environment Institute at Tufts University
“Much Less Wrong: Stern, Nordhaus, and the Economics of Climate Change”
 
April 11, 2008
8:30 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. (Reception to follow)
 
Leading manufacturers, investors, and practitioners of alternative energy products "Scaling Alternative Energy: The Role of Emerging Markets - A Dialogue"
 

This forum is co-sponsored by the Department of Economics, Tufts Institute of the Environment (TIE), and the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy.

For administrative questions about this forum, please contact Heather Angstrom at TIE.

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